“What could I do but go with them [Civil War soldiers], or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.”
Clara Barton
“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.”
Howard Thurman
“[Smiley writes that upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of] Uncle Tom?s Cabin, ... So this is the little lady who made this big war.”
Abraham Lincoln
“America to withdraw its troops from Iraq ahead of schedule. To prepare for the "civil war" brewing back home?”
Muhammed Haider
“Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, ... even during a bloody Civil War.”
“I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.”
“If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on”
